UNC Football Opens Spring Practice With Plenty Of Anticipation

Posted Mar 23, 2021
Spring football is back in Chapel Hill for the first time in more than 24 months. With 21 of 22 starters from the bowl game back, 12 early enrollees from a heralded recruiting class, and a frontrunner for the Heisman Trophy in quarterback Sam Howell, it is hard to imagine UNC football generating any more buzz in the spring than it will over the next month. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

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